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Cornwall’s Gardens

The ‘Garden Capital of the World’ is often how Cornwall is thought of throughout the world. Cornwall enjoys the power of the Gulf Stream with its temperate climate of warm summers, mild and wet winters which in turn allows exotic and rare plants to thrive. Where else can you find so many gardens with history ...

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How to Become an Interior Designer

Molding oneself to become a designer starts with your passion for beauty, and a great desire to attain it in everything you do. If you possess that love for designing, then you’ll surely have the ability to turn something that may seem obsolete into a functional work of art. But having that urge to become ...

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Interior Design Books – The Best of The Best

Inspiration comes in many forms. Sometimes, for visionaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, inspiration may come from something as simple as nature itself. For others it might come from years of conditioning and exposure, and the ability to notice a nuance that sparks the imagination. Designers have always seen the world through a different set of ...

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What Is Interior Design and How Is It Different From Interior Decorating?

To begin this journey, first an attempt must be made to answer the question, ‘What is Interior Design’; The National Council for Interior Design Qualification offers up the following definition: ‘is a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. These solutions are functional, ...

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Top Interior Designers

If you are majoring in interior design, interested in interior design, or looking for a good interior designer, you should be aware of some of the top designers in the world. They are Ron Dayan, Candice Olson, David Bromstad and Vern Yip. Ron Dayan, the founder of Piccadilly Designs, has earned the nickname ‘The Interior ...

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Choosing the Ideal Restaurant Interior Design

Restaurant interior design is very important, and can influence the way customers feel about the restaurant before they have even eaten there. More and more people are dining out, and the choice of different restaurants available is huge. First impressions really do count with any business, and where people are going to spend time such ...

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What Sort Of Interior Design Services Do Professionals Provide?

Interiors are hot topics, with a wide variety of home improvement, and interior design services reality shows on the air. However, some people might not understand the difference between interior decorating and interior design. An interior designer can also expand their business into decorating, but an interior decorator isn’t skilled, or licensed to practice interior ...

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What Sort Of Interior Design Services Do Professionals Provide?

Modern interior design has become the key words when looking to revamp your home, and more people are looking for inspiration than ever before. The basic concept is where creative and technical solutions are applied to a structure, room, or building to create an enhanced environment. Many people feel that it is simple, however, there ...

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When to Contact and How an Interior Designer Works

During planning of a house an interior designer can guide the architect or the builder on where to place doors and windows, how can they use the maximum input of natural light, where to allocate storage spaces, avoiding demolition of walls, sizing walls, making desired openings, providing specific light points as per the lighting scheme ...

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Organic Interior Designs

Organic design of interiors uses natural elements for creating those designs by minimal usage of synthetic materials. An organic decorator should be aware of the type of natural elements available in the market and in nature which can be used to replace those synthetic decorators. It will be quite challenging for usual indoor decorators to ...